With ‘border czar’ pick, Trump shows he is poised to re-make the Fox News White House
CNN
When Tom Homan left the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in 2018, he didn’t go far from Donald Trump’s administration – he joined Fox News as a paid contributor and used the platform to argue for aggressive border enforcement.
When Tom Homan left the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in 2018, he didn’t go far from Donald Trump’s administration – he joined Fox News as a paid contributor and used the platform to argue for aggressive border enforcement. Now, in a full circle moment, the immigration hard-liner is leaving Fox and rejoining Trump as the president-elect prepares to take office again. “I love Fox, I love the family there, but I think that the calling is clear. I have got to go back and help,” Homan said on “Fox & Friends” Monday morning, hours after Trump announced on his Truth Social account that Homan will be “in charge of our nation’s borders.” Homan is the first Fox News personality to join the currently-in-formation Trump administration, and he likely won’t be the last. Trump is a dedicated Fox viewer, despite his occasional social media posts and comments criticizing the right-wing network, and he has a history of hiring TV personalities he likes. Homan definitely fits that description. He was hired to head ICE’s deportation branch during the Obama administration and was named acting director of the agency when Trump took over in 2017. Once Homan became a Fox contributor, he was a regular presence across the network’s morning and prime time shows. “They basically make him out to be some kind of border patrol superstar,” said Juliet Jeske, a researcher who runs Decoding Fox News, a project that studies the network’s programming.